Trash Squad Day 1 - GAME START

[chinhotta]

[ Maybe you were going about your business and blacked out, maybe you were dead. Either way, when you come to, you are in what looks like the entrance hall to a school, except for the very well secured front door. Before you can really get your bearings, a voice rings out on an the intercom. ]

Welcome, kiddos! —How does that sound? 'Kiddos'? Too daddy kink? Eh, let's go with it for now. Anyway, welcome to a once-in-a-lifetime chance at romance and passion, with fabulous prizes! Find love beyond the boundaries of time and space! Original concept, do not steal.

Pick up your tablets and get settled in! A little later today, we'll have our first heart-pounding get-to-know-you event!

—Oh, also, no violence allowed! I know some of you kids are into the murder thing, but that's not the kind of game we're running here.

[ In fact, there are several boxes of electronic tablets around the room. When you pick one up, it displays the gameplay and rules.]

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Comments

[redcarnation]

Wow! ♥

Someone's willing to shell out this much cash for dating? Just how lonely do you have to be? Uwaaaah, pathetic.

[ Isuke is laughing, but there is a certain sharpness in her tone. She's not pleased ]

Too bad Isuke doesn't trust the set-up.

[lefthandpath]

[SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS ALLEN WALKER'S LANGUAGE?]

Haha... well. Wealthy old men have been known to have such interests, so I hear.

[redcarnation]

So they do, so they do...

[ She laughs at at that. ]

Aaah, such a shame though. Isuke wouldn't mind if she was just asked out properly, mature men have their benefits.

But like this, I'm afraid, I'm a little unwilling.

[lefthandpath]

It is difficult to get any kind of motivation with it like this.

... though I can't lie, the money would be very handy to have.

[redcarnation]

Wouldn't it? ♥

By bringing me here, they ruined my chances at taking another very nice price, so this one will have to do. Better make up for my losses.

[ She grins. ]

I take it, we're rivals then.

[lefthandpath]

I don't intend to lose, if that's what you're meaning.

[redcarnation]

I don't expect anything less than your best ♥

[assent]

Perhaps those who are lonely wish to live vicariously through others in the hope that they will have the hole in their heart filled by simply spectating? It is a rather unusual set up, however, I admit...

[redcarnation]

They could just spend the money and rent someone at that point.

Unless voyeurism is their whole thing. Groooss ♥

[assent]

If the other person is more than willing to be paid for I suppose that is not too problematic... It is still quite sad, no?

[redcarnation]

[ Isuke tilts her head, seemingly considering this for a moment, then she shrugs. ]

There's too little hours in a day to spend any of it pitying people who can't change their situation out of their own efforts. There's nothing wrong with compensated dating, but if you want something else and fail to go out and get it? That's your own problem.

[assent]

From what I understand there is often a pressure on younger people to date when they are not ready as well, though that is contradictory to the case I offered before... Therefore, I must agree with you. It seems rather strange to blame anyone else otherwise.

[redcarnation]

You talk about 'younger people' as if that didn't concern you. Don't tell me you've never dated anyone?

[dismemberthename]

Right? The tablets alone are way too much to be spending on this sort of thing.

[redcarnation]

Huh?

[ Isuke gives her tablet another look over. ]

They're just mass manufactured, aren't they?

[dismemberthename]

Yeah, but they still cost money.

[redcarnation]

Peanuts in comparison. There's a difference between some regular old spoiling and being downright desperate.

[dismemberthename]

...You and I come from very different circumstances, I think.

[redcarnation]

Money-making's a matter of dedication, that's all.

[pecker]

[Niwatori nods fervently from where she's standing around looking lost.]

It's suspicious, right? That they have us trapped, I mean!

[redcarnation]

"Suspicious" is such an understatement.

[ Niwatori's attire gets a curious glance-over, before Isuke moves back to the topic at hand. ]

It's pretty swift for a kidnapping, too. Isuke can't even remember being knocked out or anything.

[pecker]

Is it that easy to sneak up on you? I mean... if you don't remember, then maybe you just lost your memory...

[Because neither can Niwatori, and she's certain that she's not that easy to sneak up on, having had eyes everywhere. The only thing she could think of that could have randomly knocked her out is if the poison took effect.... but then she would be dead, not on the dating game.

She suddenly wonders if it's still inside of her. The outside world isn't visible, so she has no idea how much time could have passed. One Man Army has faded, so she can at least estimate based on how long she knows its effects last. Which ... wouldn't last the entire Taisen, but a lot of it. This is fine.]

[redcarnation]

Easy? Wait right there, nobody said that. Isuke's a professional at fighting, there's no way she'd be easy to take.

[ She should.. maybe not disclose any details about her 'fighting' life so openly, but there has been so much talk of murder around that she is starting to sincerely doubt it'd have any consequences to just introduce herself as a paid killer to everyone she meets.

... she hasn't seen the titles yet, which do exactly that. ]

Do you remember anything?

[pecker]

Well.... nope!

[She just admits.]

It looks like everyone else here is in the same boat. That's why I think ... they couldn't be that sneaky, for no one to notice at all. So either we don't remember or... they can just capture people without ever touching them. I guess there are crazier abilities out there.

[redcarnation]

Haaaaah.... Honestly, with this kind of price money they could have at least looked for willing subjects.

[ Who first interdimensionally kidnaps people and then pays them?? Like come on?? ]

Not that I'm opposed to easy cash at all, but Isuke was kind of in the middle of another well-paying job.